secondary level

Metrics on surfaces which optimize eigenvalues

Metrics on surfaces which optimize eigenvalues

February 15, 2017 - 04:30
- February 15, 2017 - 05:30

Richard Schoen , UC Irvine

Fine Hall 314

This will be a general lecture on the problem of finding metrics on surfaces with fixed area (or boundary length) which maximize eigenvalues. We will introduce the problem, discuss the geometry of optimal metrics, and describe general existence results.